Health Treatments

Checkmate Cancer in HdG on Saturday

2013-05-17 06:55:00

Harford County residents are being asked to support two worthy fundraisers to benefit two families of sick children. The fundraisers are to benefit the family of a 9-year-old boy, who's been battling cancer, and the other to benefit the family whose 4...

Military service

2013-05-13 10:55:31

VAUGHN: Army Reserve Pvt. Kyle L. Vaughn has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, Vaughn studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness and received...

Local student to talk weight loss on 'The View'

2013-05-15 16:41:00

Kaci DeWitt-Rickards remembers being a chunky kid with a steady diet of Burger King chicken tenders, vanilla milkshakes and Papa John's pizza. By her sophomore year in college at the University of Miami, her adolescent pudge had ballooned into a...

HPV-related throat cancers multiplying

2013-05-15 14:39:00

It is well known that HPV (human papillomavirus) can lead to deadly cervical cancer in women, but the virus is causing cancer in men as well. Throat cancers caused by HPV are showing up typically in men with little or no history of smoking, said Dr. Kevin...

Breast cancer: Angelina Jolie starts the conversation

2013-05-15 12:39:44

"Mom. Do you have that gene? Do I? Have you been tested? I thought Grandma had breast cancer. Why weren't you ever tested?" The questions from my 27-year-old daughter were coming fast. Angelina Jolie published an essay in The New York Times on Tuesday,...

Spring is the perfect time to taste the rainbow

2013-05-07 13:47:00

Nutritionists from the University of Maryland Medical Center regularly contribute a guest post. The latest post is from Catherine Schroeder, dietetic intern. Spring showers inspire the growth of a colorful array of fruits and vegetables to decorate your...

Anne Arundel County health briefs

2013-05-10 00:00:00

Rabies prevention The Department of Health offers information on how to prevent the spread of rabies and what to do in the event of exposure. Rabies is most often seen in raccoons, bats, foxes and skunks. Information: 410-222-7168 or visit aahealth.org....

Plan B restrictions — better, but not best

2013-05-02 08:26:00

In the United States of 2013, any youngster can walk into a store and buy a bottle of aspirin, acetaminophen, ibuprofen or some other pain reliever without showing any identification, parental consent or a doctor's order. They don't have to be 15 or 17 or...

Charlie Zill, former Orioles usher, dies of lung cancer at 56

2013-04-29 14:08:00

Charlie Zill, the popular long-time usher at Camden Yards who entertained Orioles fans with his “Zillbilly” dance during the seventh-inning stretch, died late Saturday night of lung cancer. He was 56. Zill, who had been diagnosed with cancer...

Super Mario Bros. in D-minor

2013-04-27 04:42:00

For at least a generation of pop-culture consumers, the soundtrack of their lives has included themes from the likes of Mega Man and Super Mario. As they've grown up, the music of video games has branched out — to solo piano, to rock concerts...

Congress flies blind

2013-04-29 09:42:00

What does it require to get members of Congress to take action quickly and decisively on an issue of federal spending? Now we know. The possibility that they will be delayed in an airport terminal somewhere waiting for a flight out of town is apparently...

Sinai to research new drug to prevent blood clots, heart attacks in stent patients

2013-04-26 12:10:00

A Sinai Hospital cardiologist is launching a clinical trial of a type of coronary artery disease drug not yet tested in humans, building on a history at the Baltimore hospital of research to develop more effective treatments to prevent blood clotting....

Dr. Ijaz I. Arshad, medical director of the Cancer Institute, discusses the new cancer treatment center at Pioneers Memorial Hospital in Brawley on Wednesday. Dr.

2013-05-15 23:38:00

A patient receives chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer at the Antoine-Lacassagne Cancer Center in Nice

2013-05-15 16:42:27

Juvenile medical marijuana plants are illuminated by artificial lights in a vegetative room Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at River Rock Medical Marijuana Center in Denver.

2013-05-15 00:00:00